Whilst that for which all virtue now is sold, And almost every vice - almighty gold.

Not to know vice at all, and keep true state, Is virtue, and not fate: Next to that virtue is to know vice well, And her black spite expel.

Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise; I will not lodge thee by Chaucer or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A littl…

Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine. The thirst that from the soul doth ri…

Money with them is nothing but trash when it is to come out of the people. But it is the one great thing for which most of them are striving, and many of them …

Business - the world's work - is the sale of lies: Not goods, but trade-marks; and still more and more In every branch becomes the sale of money.

Atheists and the unchurched undervalue the extent to which they are getting a free ride on the social strength that religious-based virtue provides.